July 27, 2015 | In: 2016 Elections, Access to Information, Campaign Finance, Civil Society, Congress Watch, Freedom of Information, Gloriagate, Governance, Jejomar C Binay, Media, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch
HE DELIVERS today his sixth and last State of the National Address. But President Benigno S. Aquino III and the citizens he calls his "Boss" might do well to go back to script and check his "Social Contract with the Filipino People." This, he said...
February 6, 2015 | In: 2004 Electoral Fraud, Arroyo Impeachment, Civil Society, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Gloriagate, Governance, In the News, Investigative Reports
[View the story "Friday Flashback: Hello, Garci?" on...
May 6, 2014 | In: Access to Information, Civil Society, Free Expression - Asia, Freedom of Information, General, Gloriagate, Human Rights, Journalist Killings, Local Government, Media
Nadjid: Killed after Press Freedom Day (from Nadjid's FB page) A RADIO BROADCASTER in Mindanao was shot dead just a day after the country's journalists marked World Press Freedom Day. The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines...
June 11, 2013 | In: 2013 Elections, Access to Information, Congress Watch, Culture, Freedom of Information, Gloriagate, Governance, Investigative Reports, Local Government, Media, Money Politics, Noynoy Watch, The Judiciary
AMONG ITS MANY EXCUSES for being, the government is supposed to combat crime and corruption. Those elected to office thus take a solemn oath before God, Country, and Constitution to uphold, defend, and rule by the laws of the land. Our latest two-part...
April 29, 2013 | In: 2013 Elections, Culture, Freedom of Information, General, Gloriagate, Governance, Investigative Reports, Journalist Killings
The full PCIJ documentary on the Maguindanao clans is now online A VIDEO DOCUMENTARY produced by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) on the continuing rule of the political clans in Maguindanao province may now be viewed...
April 14, 2013 | In: Access to Information, Cross Border, Freedom of Information, General, Gloriagate, Governance, Investigative Reports, Media
IT REALLY IS indeed diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks as Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism Executive Director Malou Mangahas aptly wrote in her April 5 article, "Repentant, reticent, rude," on how local Philippine officials reacted to a...
April 12, 2013 | In: 2013 Elections, Civil Society, Congress Watch, General, Gloriagate, Governance, Journalist Killings, Maguindanao Massacre, Noynoy Watch
THE DATU system, an ancient political and social structure that has defined much of the history of the southern Philippines, provides continuity between a proud past and the tumultuous present in Maguindanao. Yet it is one that has radically evolved --...
